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Not one to rest often enough, I'm currently in Seattle WA doing research and networking for VR filmmaking projects for 2016 which is super exciting, terrifying, ground breaking and happening very fast... But last night restless and a wee bit drunk armed with only an iphone 4 and a red lit basement guest room i got inspired. here's a few brief digital pieces created on the fly late last night.

Up and coming actor Will August for the Passages series Will is the ninth addition to the series documenting modern
masculinity within the arts. All the models in the series are artists,
actors, and musicians based in Portland, OR. A book collecting this
series is forthcoming in 2016.

Up and coming actor Will August turns on the leading man smoulder for his go at the Bedroom Series. Will is the ninth addition to the series documenting modern masculinity within the arts. All the models in the series are artists, actors, and musicians based in Portland, OR. A book collecting the series is forthcoming in 2015.

Portland-Based actor Heath joins the Bedroom Series. Heath marks the eight model to pose for the series which still seems to be going strong. A limited edition volume of selected works will be published later this year.

while I'm working on a new full length album I enjoy randomly releasing these ambient singles. It's a nice break from editing on the Bedroom Series book which is coming this fall and all my work at defunkt theatre. xo enjoy the brand new track after the jump.

I've taken a step back into less ambient waters as of late, musically. My art career is so diverse that at times I have to step away from one medium that I love to have an affair with another. Making films has patiently waited while my work as a theatre director has taken off and being co-artistic director of a company is quite time consuming and was one of the many reasons I chose to dissolve my last musical project/band Mattachine Social. I try to squeeze in photo shoots when I can. The other day, missing my bass guitar and my art-damaged improvised noise punk roots I recorded this quick composition. with a simple set of rules: 1 drum loop, 1 bass guitar. It's two takes (1 overdub) and zero fucks given, mistakes and all thrown in. Here's to shaking off the rust.

Frames is a 2015 series of video stills created in relation to my work in erotica and artporn. Re-imagining the imagery filtered through glitch-based software and removed from their context the new images represent a frozen moment of intimacy in our digital landscape.

I like to think of this kaleidoscopic mediation designed for somnambulism as less "music video" and more a visual aid. For the full effect I'm planning a gallery installation of the projection to go with the ambient composition. Like much of my work aesthetic this aims to be surreal, dreamy, and sensual without the graphic hardcore quality that are exemplified by other works in my catalog. somnambulism as a recording is available through my label Le Garçon Sale Records.

I wrote and recorded as Boarding School ( my moniker for experimental/ instrumental electronica and neoclassical pieces) late this spring. The release is a single 29:50 track of ambient soundscape, shoegazer guitar (featuring former Mattachine Social guitarist Ben Jansen) swirling synths and strings, mallet percussion and beats all droning to a hazey dream-like pulse. My lable Le Garçon Sale records is giving away 200 downloads free over on bandcamp so feel free to check out some new sounds. Grab it here: https://legarconsalerecords.bandcamp.com/

Outliers is a series of manipulated works based on source photographs taken between 1995 and 2005. Low rez, heavily manipulated , abstracted and processed evoking the way our memory leaves impressions without accurate details, emotional truth without factual accuracy.

I've had the pleasure to work with Portland's premier cartoon queen Pagan Holladay many times over the past few years. A talented designer and gifted performer Pagan is a star on the rise. Here's a candid portrait behind-the scenes from a recent video shot we collaborated on.

Due to the often explicit nature of my work finding the right venue to show is always a key concern. It's always a crap shoot booking models, securing screenings, dealing with curators- especially in non traditional spaces. It's typically something I avoid like the plague. Recently I was talked into signing onto a show without being clear about the space which turned out to be a restaurant/bar. Look, Restos ( cafe shows) are great and frequently sell more pieces for an emerging artist than a gallery show...however my work isn't really the right fit, but I said okay sure why not...then the inevitable happened the manager of the space vetoed pieces from my selected works due to partial or full frontal male nudity. So I declined to do the show. No harm no foul. Just not my gig.

however it inspired me to censor my own work on my own terms as a reaction to the constant conservative pressure to make decorative art. again No harm no foul. Just not my gig.

New Math is a series based on archive low-rez photos re-purposed for glitch-based manipulation. A commentary on how our memories distort and the geometry of our minds changes over time. Distance becomes farther, wider, the laws of physics cease functioning and in memory the deterioration of feeling can sometimes be beautiful.

Former Almost is Nothing front man Toby Spellman joins the Passages series in it's 7th installment (!!). It occurred to me today unintentionally all the models for the series have been actors, artists, or musician. Enjoy

THE following pieces represent casual play and digital manipulation.
created in an almost meditative automatic writing (in this case editing)
sort of practice. The works are playful in their addressing of our
urbanoia and anxiety, our isolation and our manipulation of our own
emotions in a digital landscape.

Sometimes a shoot yields so many usable frames I'm forced to create alternate takes, alternate color pallets so as to not over crowd a series with one model over another. It's a lovely problem to have really. Here are some alternates of actor and model Chris from the bedroom series.

I just re-discovered a small cache of photographs I snapped on-set with writer Nick Mattos while filming "I Am Not Myself Today". They were soft focus , playful double exposures in a close intimate setting (or snapshots of the bloody clean-up post FX sequence.) Here's a few of my favorites.

I turned my dashing photographer friend Andy Lindblom (check out his work HERE) into a model today for Passages and the bedroom series (he didn't seem to mind too much really). I'll be collecting the Bedroom Series into a book later this year, with some unpublished photos as well in the mix. Until then enjoy.

Nature photographer and model and friend Andy Lindblom dropped by to pose for the Passages and bedroom series today. Always fun catching up with your friends when you've been swamped with giant projects as of late, a nice reminder that there are fun people in the world when you have tunnel vision on work. (check out Andy's work here and here.

Continuing the digital debris series of glitch based photo manipulation as a means of expressing our urbanoia and social media malaise. Some times romantic, sometimes elegiac then shattered in the code transfer.

Brand New Retro is a series that blends my love of retro beefcake mags of the 1950's and 1960's with their eroticized masculinity and kitchy California ease and the more evocative plays of darkness and light more associated with my surrealist-horror work like Devils. I like for the uncanny and the erotic to blur lines, they (hopefully) then subvert their sense of ideological marker and lead the viewer somewhere richer.

The limited series is sensual, over-processed, and yet austerer and simplistic.

Here again working with model and actor Samson to evoke a half remembered dream of a pin-up star.

After ending Mattachine Social and having now released a double album and an ep of instrumental electronic world music and film score as Boarding School I thought i was time to start wring towards an eventual solo album (as AKV) . I'm lining up a great batch of accomplished and game session players and I'll be in and out of the studio all year but in the meantime I have this lo-fi dance pop single Tired Old Queen and the Townie remix that came from a recent session. Enjoy.

What's a boy to do with an iPhone, Instagram, some free time and a
series of Funko/ Super7 line of Kenner inspired Reaction figures based on classic film monsters (the
Universal Monsters, Hellraiser and Trick r Treat to be exact) . Here's a one-off series just for fun.